Perceiving a story outside of conscious awareness: When we infer narrative attributes from subliminal sequential stimuli |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Neurology and Geriatrics, Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu City, Gifu, Japan;2. Life Science Research Center, Center for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Mie University, Tsu City, Mie, Japan;3. Graduate School of Regional Innovation Studies, Mie University, Tsu City, Mie, Japan;1. Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan;2. Ecological Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Michima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan;3. Fisheries Laboratory, The University of Tokyo, Maisaka, Shizuoka 431-0214, Japan;4. Foundation for Advancement of International Science, Tsukuba 305-0821, Japan;5. Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | Perceiving a story behind successive movements plays an important role in our lives. From a general perspective, such higher mental activity would seem to depend on conscious processes. Using a subliminal priming paradigm, we demonstrated that such story perception occurs without conscious awareness. In the experiments, participants were subliminally presented with sequential pictures that represented a story in which one geometrical figure was chased by the other figure, and in which one fictitious character defeated the other character in a tug-of-war. Although the participants could not report having seen the pictures, their automatic mental associations (i.e., associations that are activated unintentionally, difficult to control, and not necessarily endorsed at a conscious level) were shifted to line up with the story. The results suggest that story perception operates outside of conscious awareness. Implications for research on the unconscious were also briefly discussed. |
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Keywords: | Unconscious processes Priming Subliminal Implicit measure Story perception |
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